Use this recipe to make delicious venison backstrap fajitas and/or fajita salads. Ingredients: Venison Backstrap Peppers Onion Mushrooms Marinade (I prefer Allegro Hot & Spicy) Salad: Greens Cucumber Tomato Avocado Dressing (We used Cilantro Avocado…
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Hunt and Gather: Sumac Lemonade and Venison Tenderloin Medallions
Jun 29, 2017Bruce and Elaine Ingram
As fellow QDMA member Bryce Clingenpeel and I are driving down a rural road in Botetourt County, Virginia on a late July day, he suddenly slams on the brakes, quickly parks his truck on the…
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Hunt and Gather: Venison Roast and Wineberry Cobbler
Jan 26, 2015Bruce and Elaine Ingram
“There are white oak acorns all over the woodlot up the hill,” the landowner said when I arrived for a scouting session a week before Virginia’s Urban Archery Antlerless Season began. “That’s where I want you…
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Hunt and Gather: Fix-Ahead Venison Cube Steak and Grimes Golden Applesauce
Jan 14, 2015Bruce and Elaine Ingram
It was the weekend before the first Saturday of October, the traditional opening of Virginia’s archery season, and a friend and I had been searching my Potts Mountain land in Craig County for a stand site….
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Deer Tongue for Dinner
Dec 30, 2014Bruce Ingram
About a dozen years ago, I began to feel guilty about leaving gut piles behind in the woods after field dressing a whitetail. I was uncomfortable knowing my wife Elaine and I might be wasting…
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Hunt and Gather: Venison Pastitsio and Crabapple Nut Bread
Jul 28, 2014Bruce and Elaine Ingram
For a fortnight last October, the most exciting pattern I experienced involved a steady stream of deer coming to scarf up fruit under a pear tree. Setting up nearby, I ended up killing two fine does…
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Hunt and Gather: Baked Venison Burgers & Wild Blackberry Pie
Apr 25, 2014Bruce and Elaine Ingram
While my wife Elaine and I were preparing this venison themed dinner, we thought of all the ways Quality Deer Management influenced how the entrée and dessert arrived on our table. I killed the doe, from…
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Deer Heart on the Menu
Dec 10, 2013Bruce Ingram
As someone who depends on venison for all my wife Elaine’s and my red meat needs for the year, and who tries to annually kill 10 whitetails to fulfill those needs, I regard the consumption…
